Oz and Ends

Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.

28 February 2014

Diagnosis: Fear of Obamacare

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News stories and political commercials have spotlighted some Americans complaining about changes in their health insurance under the Afforda...
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27 February 2014

Will Eisner Week in Metro Boston

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The Million Year Picnic comics shop, Stephen Weiner of the Maynard Public Library, the Cambridge Public Library, and folks from the Boston ...
25 February 2014

Off to Australia

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Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love , provided the Sydney Morning Herald with a list of “Books that changed me.” The first on t...
24 February 2014

Dense Thoughts

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Water has the very unusual physical property of expanding as it turns from liquid to solid. Most substances take up less volume as solids th...
23 February 2014

Neal Adams on Robinson’s Robin

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In the third part of Kevin Smith’s podcast interview with artist Neal Adams, Smith asks whom Adams sees as the creator of Batman. Earlier...
22 February 2014

Introducing (One Version of) Dr. Megalo

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A couple of weeks back, I linked to the Boston Comics Roundtable’s “Working Method” experiment , which this month is focused on a script I w...
20 February 2014

Adding to the Fantastic Four Mythos?

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The core mythos of the Fantastic Four comics, launched in 1961 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, is that a family goes into space, gets turned i...
18 February 2014

Illustrating Picture Books versus Drawing Comics

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Toward the end of his conversation with Skottie Young on the Stuff Said podcast , artist Gregg Schigiel asks about Young’s experience illu...
17 February 2014

A Jury That Did Not Compromise

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In the trial of Michael Dunn for killing Jordan Davis, the instructions to the jury offered the possible charges of first-, second-, and t...
16 February 2014

Robin Black and White

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The last issue of DC Comics’s second Batman Black and White series offers a fine short story about Dick Grayson as Robin, written and drawn...
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